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Clay Travis
The polls were all correct. Let's take a moment because we get a lot of oh, you can't trust the polls. You can't. No, the polls were pretty much spot on. The people that were leading all one and the margins were more or less what was expected. Virginia might have been a little bigger than expected. But look, we lost the governor's mansion in Virginia. We lost a gov. Well, we didn't win the contest for the governor's mansion in New Jersey. We've got a communist mayor of New York City inbound Clay, I am wearing Soviet Union red today in solidarity with Comrade Zoron. But the political consensus, the wisdom of the chattering class, whatever you want to call it, was locked in, correct. And everything that we told you to be fair was also correct. None of this. I was hopeful that maybe we would steal something from New Jersey, but we didn't. So it was not A not a strong night. Look, these are very tough races in very tough spaces for not just a Republican, but for sanity. I mean, this is like the heart of darkness. When you're talking about New York City, you're talking about, you know, the northern part of Virginia, which now dominates the state. Clay, I will say, and we're going to get into the demographic data too here that also completely aligned with what we thought. If you thought some group was going to vote Mamdani, they did. By the way, Mamdani got over 90% of the black vote. Something that was not talked about very much in advance of, of the election. So that was the single strongest demographic for mom Donnie. But there are many, you know, young women, millennials, Hispanics, Asians. There's all these breakdowns of the data. We'll see. Clay, I think that at the biggest level, at the 30,000 foot view, this is a reminder that economics is still the dominant political issue in America. Wherever you are, people are worried about prices, they're worried about cost of living, they're worried about their future and their children's future or even their ability to have children because of the future that they see and the political party that addresses that with more aplomb, not just more accuracy. Zoron was more fun than the other guys. Yeah, he's a communist. He's going to ruin New York. We all get that, right? But Clay, who was more entertaining, who was more engaging, who seemed like he wanted it more, it's not even close. Cuomo barely showed up.
Buck Sexton
New York City's in trouble with mom Donnie. But they voted for him for sure. The turnout was huge. Here's what I would say about Virginia and New Jersey. And I think this is where not only do we look at the results, but we have to spin it forward and we have to do it honestly. Trump got more votes in New Jersey and in Virginia last year than either of the winning candidates did. Mickey Sherrill or Spanberger. Okay, why do I say that? Yes, it was a presidential election. Yes, it's a off year election, but that always happens in New Jersey and Virginia. 600,000 Trump voters, Buck did not show up and vote in both New Jersey and in Virginia, 600,000. Some of you are listening to us right now and you didn't go vote even though we told you to go vote.
Clay Travis
Ok. Shame.
Buck Sexton
What does that mean going forward? The people, Buck, who hate Trump, they show up. Their brains are broken. They will show up at a school board vote because they hate Trump. The people who love Trump, they don't show up when Trump's not on the ballot. And so that is ominous for 2026, and candidly, it's ominous for 2028, which is why I have told you the pivot is coming very soon to Trump's voters won't show up in 28. And they're going to say Trump's voters won't show up in 26. And that is, to me, the biggest, most impactful thing about what happened last night. 600,000 people less showed up in New Jersey and Virginia. It wasn't that somehow these Democrats won and turned out unbelievable numbers. The numbers in New York City were unbelievable. And they were good.
Clay Travis
I mean, they actually did do a good job of turnout, I think in New York particularly, but in New York City.
Buck Sexton
But that's why I said it's two different takes. New York City, they said, we want Commie Momdani. He's our guy. We are excited to go to the polls and make this guy the next mayor. You said it's because he's exciting. I mean, I think that he ran, I think you got to give him credit, a great campaign and he delivered based on an awful, awful pitch, reality wise. But in New Jersey and Virginia, the biggest story to me is Trump's people didn't show up.
Clay Travis
There is a fundamental reality that the GOP is going to have to address. Look, this is an off year election. This was Democrat home turf, really across the board. I mean, Virginia is a purple blue state. I know we had that, that nice, that nice off year win before with Youngkin Winsome. Sears seems like a, a, a wonderful lady and just a very good person. A completely unmemorable campaign. Not to be mean. I think she's very impressive and I obviously would have voted for her if I lived in Virginia, but just not a campaigner. You know, you can be a good leader, you can be a good decider, but not really a campaigner. Zoron is kind of funny, Clay. He's the opposite. Zoron created a show. Zoron remembered the lessons of Saul Alinsky. Go back and read Rules for Radicals, everybody. Alinsky. There is, there is an evil brilliance to so much that is in that book. One of the things is make it fun.
Buck Sexton
Yeah.
Clay Travis
Make it an activity. Make activism something people want to show up to because they'll feel cool and they'll laugh and they'll be with their friends. And Zoran managed to do that. Now Trump has had that same effect on the right. Trump is both a political and a cultural phenomenon. People show up with their MAGA hats. People show up feeling like they are part of something. The big question for 28, more so even than 26, I think, Clay, is how does the MAGA movement coalesce around an heir apparent? How does Trump play into that? And this is going to be something we talk a lot about in the next year. But in the meantime, the economy, and that means health care, that means inflation, the cost of rent, the cost of groceries, the cost of everything. You got to have messaging on this, everyone, or else the commies will be in charge.
Buck Sexton
Here is a funny tweet on this because we are going to try to have some humor, because sometimes you get your ass.
Clay Travis
Yeah, look, it's all going to be fine.
Buck Sexton
Have a little bit of black sense of humor, right? A dark sense of humor.
Clay Travis
I told my parents, just make sure that go bags are by the front door. I'm here in Florida. If you got to flee, you know where to go. They're fine.
Buck Sexton
Brad Chadlington, I don't know who he is, but I saw this and I thought it was so funny. The richest, whitest, most sheltered girl, you know, from the wealthiest suburb in the country is posting a picture of Zoran Mamdani on her story right now, captioned Power to the people from her SoHo apartment that's paid for by her wealthy, conservative father. There is a lot of truth to this because the more recently you arrived in New York City, I saw a breakdown based on length of time that people have lived in New York City. The more likely you were to vote for Mom. Donnie. Overwhelming majority. I think it was 82% I saw of people that have gotten to New York City in the last decade. Now, a lot of those are immigrants, right? Which is a whole big discussion in general. But a lot of those people are actually just young college kids, like the girl probably, that I just described.
Clay Travis
Well, we gotta slow immigration down in general. This is another conversation that everyone needs to have. If you have the largest city in America with being largely determined, its future being determined by people who have been in America for only a couple of years, that's. That's a problem. That's actually not what you want. No other country would allow that. Yeah, I know that we're supposed. We've been brainwashed to believe that. That's all. You know, if you just came across the border, even if you're illegal, you're as American as everybody who's ever been here. And even if their family's been here for generations. That is not true. True. And we have to have a discussion about that as well. We're good. We've had a lot of immigration, you know, we've had a lot of legal immigration, a lot of illegal immigration. It's time to tighten up some of these numbers a little bit and let assimilation and Americanism and Americanizing take place for everybody. It can't just be this wide open door and you get people coming here from all over the world who are saying, you know what? I want communism. That's not good. That's not going to help us very much here. By the way, the country went through this before, the city of Chicago in particular, Clay, right. Right around the turn of the 20th century, there were all kinds of commies and socialists and anarchists who were showing up. And it was a real concern then.
Buck Sexton
The, the biggest issue, I would say, with illegal immigration and immigration now is back in the day when we had, you know, where I am right now in New York City, huge Irish populations, huge Italian populations, huge numbers of immigrants. A lot of them still came from a Western civilization. Culture that recognized that Western civilization and yes, Christianity, although it might have been Catholic. Remember the big battle there was between Protestants and Catholics. There was a common floor of agreement on some level. A lot of people coming now, which is certainly incredibly ironic, are arguing America's an awful place. Oh, and America's history is awful.
Clay Travis
And this. Well, I think it's even worse, Clay, because there's also. This is a spoils system that people now arrive. And you see this in Minneapolis and you see this in New York, and you see this in cities where there is a particularly increasingly obvious tribal, newly arrived political attitude. Like, I have arrived. I'm going to vote as a voting bloc to dispossess the natives, the ones who have been here. And by the way, to be very clear, that's all Americans. That's white, black, Asian, Latino. But it's people that were born here, people that were raised here, people that are American. There's now the new arrivals that are saying, why do I even have to. Why do I even have to conform? Why do I have to learn English even, or do any of this stuff? I'm just going to stay with my voting bloc here. Do you see? By the way, if you want to look at a version of this, Sweden, the Netherlands, they've got big problems. These people show up and they say, I just want the welfare state and I'm going to have nothing to do with your culture and your society. Now, look, this is a very complicated, broad discussion with a lot of things going on. But in New York, it is very stark. People who are college educated and young who have been brainwashed. I will just say it. They have been brainwashed. They do not know. The other problem on this, though, is they are getting screwed by not having assets because of the inflationary policies of both Democrats and Republicans. And the way that we've created a system that unfortunately is intergenerational theft. No one wants to hear that, but it's true. $37 trillion of debt. This is a problem. We do actually have to deal with this. So there's a lot, a lot of lessons I think you can take from this. But there's nothing dire here. It's an off year election. We expected all these results, Clay.
Buck Sexton
We told people that these results were coming and a lot of people out there said, I don't believe the polls. Remember Hillary, Clay, you're the reason Slee was going to win. When I said, okay, I'll wear a beret for like, he got seven and a half percent of the vote. Yeah, seven and a half percent of the vote.
Clay Travis
I think I could have gotten seven and a half percent of the vote, honestly.
Buck Sexton
I mean, you know, I think you would have gotten more than seven and a half percent of the vote.
Clay Travis
So, you know, a native son of New York, formerly of the nypd, he's got some. He's got decent hair. No beret, but decent hair. Yeah. It was not a good showing for Sliwa.
Buck Sexton
You fled the city just in time, by the way. A lot of people are going to say buck, you know, got out.
Clay Travis
I mean, I'm actually, I'm actually closing on a Florida property today. An investment. So it's.
Buck Sexton
By the way, I've, I've been told we could have some fun with this, too. Real estate agents legitimately in Florida and Tennessee and Texas are being flooded with calls right now.
Clay Travis
I wonder, is that really. I'm going to send some messages out because everybody in Florida has a real estate license. So I'm going to ask some of my buddies here.
Buck Sexton
It is a hundred percent real. Now, people may not act on it, but there's a lot of people waking up in New York this morning saying, this is just. They went through Covid. They dealt with all of the things that had to do with Eric Adams. But this is much worse.
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Buck Sexton
We will take your calls and we come back 800-282-2882. You can also send your talk back. Apologies to me for being completely right about everything I said in New York City in the mayor's race, including people who called me mean names. I would like for you to send us talkbacks and acknowledge that I was right and you were wrong. I'm sure that's coming. In the meantime, I'm right about this too. Cozy Earth is incredible. We love Cozy Earth sheets. Once you sleep on them, you'll understand why. Incredible. Incredibly soft, lightweight. Also moisture wicking so you never overheat. They come backed by 100 night sleep trial money back guarantee and a 10 year warranty. That's just one of the many great Cozy Earth products out there. Cozy Earth also has cozy clothes too. Producer Allie is wearing a cashmere cardigan. Oh, and getting another one for her mom. I'm in the Studio in New York City. She might need that cashmere cardigan because I think that Zoran Mamdani is going to seize it because it is too nice and he wants to seize all methods of opulence. Right now, sell is on@cozyearth.com use my name, Clay as your promo code. Top of the state. What site? Wide sale. 40% off. Go to cozyearth.com right now. My name, Clay for 40% off. That's cozyearth.com Clay for 40% off. We are talking their results from Virginia, New Jersey, New York City and beyond. A lot of you want to weigh in and we will take a bunch of your calls here. Jason in Houston. Buck, I don't know what the reaction has been among your friends in Florida, but I was tweeting last night and I saw, I just am catching up with Twitter. I saw that you responded to Tommy Lahren being upset with me for telling people in New York, hey, come on down to Tennessee. Come on down to Texas, Come on down to, to Florida. If you are successful and just fed up with everything around you, Tommy is like, no, we don't want any of these people here. And then you pointed out that Florida has a lot of dangers and so you wanted everyone to be here.
Clay Travis
I'm, I'm fine with the, the sane and decent people of New York who have had enough going to another red state. It's just there's. Florida's gotten a little crowded since I arrived a few years ago. And we have sharks and alligators. So for the safety of all involved, I think go out. There's all this land. I've driven around Nashville, outside the city limits. There's all this land there. Just, just start building there. You're going to love it. It's going to be great.
Buck Sexton
Let me also point this out more seriously for any of you out there that have bought into this craziness that Jewish people run the country right now and they make every decision. Let me just point this out. The biggest population of Jews in America is in New York City. And New York City just elected a mayor that hates them. So if the Jewish people were so all powerful, with the help of some.
Clay Travis
Jewish voters, I might add, by the way, substantial, we'll see what those that data actually looks like. But Mamdani won the very heavily Jewish Upper west side of Manhattan by a lot.
Buck Sexton
Yeah, so, so, and look, I mean, it's a dark thing to think about, but 25th anniversary of 9 11, the mayor of New York City is now going to be Muslim. I don't know how those ceremonies are going to go. And certainly there are peace loving members of the Muslim community. But I think if you had told people in New York in 2001, hey, on the 25th anniversary of 911 there will be a Muslim mayor of New York City, I think a lot of them would have told you that that is crazy. In the immediate aftermath of 9 11, I would also point out that it disproves the arguments that Mamdani used to get elected, which is that New Yorkers are hugely racist and religious bigots.
Clay Travis
Well, Islamophobic is the one that. Which is, as I've always said, 911 was one of the greatest testament. The aftermath of 911 greatest testaments to the character and, and tolerance of the American people. Because there was no real Islamophobia. You know, they can talk about like, oh, someone said something mean to somebody with a headscarf. A lot of people say a lot of mean things to people every day for a lot of reasons. Okay, that's not a hate crime that we all have to sit around and cry about. But that wasn't even really happening in the way they were pretending anyway. Not even. This was, this was a class and socialism and Marxism election. It really was more that I think than anything in New York City that, than anything else. And then in the, in the Democrat precincts in Virginia, Clay, look, D.C. is a one, is a one industry town government in all its formations and permutations. And the Republicans came in and they've been cutting jobs and they've got doge. And let me tell you, there are a lot of very unhappy now there's really two Virginia. Just like there's a lot, there's a lot of this in other states, right? There's the Virginia that is essentially overflow from the District of Columbia, which is a big chunk of it, right? Just a big suburb of D.C. and then there's the Virginia that some of you live in who are listening that's just like red. And you're listening to this show and we all get, you know, we all get the vibe, right? Unfortunately there's so many people in that northern part and the job, the jobs cutting and the anxiety over, over the government shutdown turnout was huge. And that would be very difficult for any Republican to overcome.
Buck Sexton
And we told you that they were using that for their political benefit. And I bet we'll get an end to the shutdown sooner rather than later. Jason in Houston, what you got for us?
Caller
Hey, I just want to promote my city Here. I've lived in Houston for 50 years. I love it. And any of you in New York want to come down here and think you're going to lose something, you're not. We have a world class symphony, world class opera, ballet, theater seats.
Buck Sexton
So you, you, Jason, I appreciate Houston is a great place. You want angry New Yorkers who vote red. You're welcoming them down to the Lone Star state and to Houston in particular.
Caller
Oh yeah, Houston's a great place to live. It is so underrated by people who've never been here. I mean, we have so much to offer. We got lots of great restaurants. As far as economic, a lot of people don't know this. You know what the second largest industry in Houston is? Energy's the first.
Buck Sexton
Energy makes sense.
Clay Travis
Rodeo medicine.
Caller
Medicine.
Buck Sexton
I should have got large. You have the mt Anderson complex. Thank you for the call.
Clay Travis
Is. I don't want to, I'm not trying to offend anybody elsewhere in Texas. I, I'm more a Houston person than a Dallas person and I spent a lot of time in the Dallas area, but I'm, I'm. Houston's more my, my scene actually.
Buck Sexton
So I like Houston a lot.
Clay Travis
I think the, the when I've gone to restaurants in Houston that Houstonians have said the food's really good. Even as a food snob New Yorker, I have to be like, yes, your food is very good. So that's always a big tell for me.
Buck Sexton
Bonnie in Charleston, South Carolina. Bonnie, thanks for listening. What you got for us?
Caller
Oh, guys, I want to apologize for the women. I just want to apologize because I watched the statistics. The women are the ones that put Mandami over. The women are the ones that put it over in New Jersey and in Virginia. I want to apologize for the stupidity of my gender.
Buck Sexton
Thank you for the call, Bonnie. I wasn't expecting Bonnie to call in from Charleston, South Carolina. Beautiful city there and just point out what is true. Men voted for the Republican win some Sears. Based on what I've seen, if there were only men voting, Republicans would have won every race.
Clay Travis
I think also this goes in the silver lining but also a little bit of the schadenfreude category. For those of you who voted for either Cuomo or Sliwa and I know if you're a Cuomo voter, you just. It was an anti Mamdani vote but wasn't enough. Remember, Trump endorsed Cuomo. What a crazy world we live in at the very, at the very 11th.
Buck Sexton
What odds, what odds would you have given me on Trump endorsing Cuomo for any election in the rest of his Life. In the 2020, when we were in the middle of COVID Yeah, would it would have been.
Clay Travis
Would have been quite a stretch. But there we are. Or there we were. And I would just say Mamdani is going to greatly disappoint the people who actually believe that he will deliver on the stuff that he has promised. And that also means that he will not be able to mess things up as badly as some of you are worried he will. That said, he is going to be.
Buck Sexton
A very bad mayor, unfortunately.
Clay Travis
So it's not as bad as people are thinking. If they think it's going to be absolutely catastrophic. He's really just going to be, I think in a lot of ways, de Blasio. But he's taking over with a city that is in more need of help and more need of fixing than when when de Blasio took it over. All he had to do is not mess it up. And de Blasio was like, I'm going to mess this up. That's a different situation than Mamdani.
Buck Sexton
Now, I think the awful way to contemplate this buck to me is it won't matter. They're not going to. It doesn't even matter if Mamdani does an awful job. They hate Trump so much that they are willing to live in awfulness rather than make a choice that would in any way be seen as an acknowledgment that Trump is something other than pure evil.
Clay Travis
That's when you. When you have gone full woke. I want everyone to understand this was a lesson for me. This was something that I had to adjust my thinking and understanding of the left Democrat mindset in America. Clay based on the San Francisco model where they finally in the BLM era. Right. So 2020 George Floyd happens. They reached the point where it was so what if your home is being burglarized? Social justice means you can't call the cops because. And I'm just telling you what the argument was and there were editorials written about this.
Buck Sexton
This is.
Clay Travis
You can go find them. There was one in particular in the San Francisco Chronicle. You can't call the cops because a person of color is stealing from you because of society. And so you are part of systematic racism if you call the cop. So it's basically, you must revel in your suffering.
Buck Sexton
That is where.
Clay Travis
That is where they finally will go. And in New York, they have not suffered enough. They have not seen what happens when you promise fairy tales and put idiots in charge.
Buck Sexton
It's funny because it sounds on its face so patently absurd to say to someone in San Francisco, if a minority robs you, you shouldn't call the police because the minority deserves whatever your property is.
Clay Travis
That's police violence may be visited on them. That's the other part of it.
Buck Sexton
But this is just a physical direct manifestation of what reparations is.
Clay Travis
Right.
Buck Sexton
It sounds even more ridiculous when you put it in the context of you have possession of property and you give it to someone else based entirely on their past. It's really the robbery is just a physical manifestation which makes the reparations even more ridiculous. And but in the government is taking the money instead of an individual in the case of reparations. Tom in Tampa, what you got?
Caller
Hey, you're slightly wrong on one thing you said and I'm going to prove it to you. Okay. The great Rush Limbaugh taught us all that the campaign live on three words internal polling data. Everybody said that if Curtis pulled out of the race those votes would go to Bondoni. Well apparently Curtis had internal polling data data all right. No pun intended that indicated that that was not the case. So where you were wrong, Clay, is apparently there was no secret deal to get to get Sliwa some sort of job because it didn't matter if he pulled out or stayed in.
Buck Sexton
I hold on. I do think the data reflects. I'm looking at the results right now. SLIWA got 7.1% of the vote.
Caller
If he had dropped out that Cuomo's percentage it doesn't come up to enough to win the election.
Buck Sexton
Okay. I think if Sliwa had dropped out and it had been a head to head race. Mom, Donnie won 50.4% of the race. He barely got over 50%. I think if there had been a head to head race, it is more likely that Cuomo could have potentially maybe he wouldn't have gotten over 50% with Sliwa in, Mamdani won by nearly nine points. It didn't end up being remotely close. Now people out there Buck were calling in and saying, you guys are particularly me, you're crazy. Sli was going to win. And so I had fun and said I'll wear red beret for. I mean he got 7% of the vote.
Clay Travis
Well also the thing that always made me a little sanguine about this whole thing and I and I love New York and I am not in the. Let's. Let's just see. Let's see how crazy this experiment can get. Let's see what happens when we empty out Arkham on New York City and the asylum is actually just the city itself. I'm rooting for New York, but Cuomo is horrible. I mean, this is. Cuomo isn't a generic Democrat. Who happened? Cuomo was a terrible governor and awful. Not just on Covid. I keep banging the table. The. The crime. The crime policies that Cuomo pushed at the state level were the worst things done to New York City on crime. So this is why everyone's saying, oh, but Cuomo. But Cuomo, he was terrible, actually. So that was. I. I felt like we were out of the frying pan into the fire. Even if we got a Cuomo come from behind.
Buck Sexton
Vic, here's some fun. Buck, Roy just emailed me. You and Travis think. He thinks he's emailing you. You, but. So this is directed at you, Buck, you and Travis did everything you could to short circuit Curtis Sliwa's campaign, except urge people to vote for Mom Commie. And when it became obvious that was what you were doing, you had the unmitigated gall to invite Sliwa on for a last minute interview. And now you're kissing Mom Commie's ass. F you controlled opposition. You can go to hell before you get an apology.
Clay Travis
You know what? We're here. We're here to absorb all the frustration of Sliwa voters because you're our family.
Buck Sexton
Sliwa voters.
Clay Travis
You're our family. I love you all, OK? And I know it's a sad, you.
Buck Sexton
Know, our 71% of the vote, bucks. This is like losing 63 to 3.
Clay Travis
Clay is having a little more fun with that than I am.
Buck Sexton
All right?
Clay Travis
By the way, that's Clay.
Buck Sexton
I'm Buck.
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Caller
You got it guys.
Clay Travis
Thanks.
Caller
I love your show. You guys are great Americans. Thanks for everything you do. Yeah, we expected this, but now that it's here, I mean, I've had bolts feet out the door for Florida for a while now, but now it's over. Now I just got off the whole. My cousin that lives down there in Tampa and I'm like probably going to head down there this weekend and check out some properties because you doing Gulf.
Clay Travis
Coast, you're going to go Gulf coast, not Atlantic Coast.
Caller
I love the East Coast. I love the east coast, but I just have a fondness for the west Coast. I just something about it.
Buck Sexton
This was the, I mean, tipping point you said you've had. You've been thinking about it for a while, but if Mamdani had lost you, you wouldn't have gone like this. To you was just like the straw that breaks the proverbial camel's back on New York for you.
Caller
Pretty much. I just, I'm just. Staten Island. We've always marched to a beat of our own here. As you know, we're, you know, it's a little different than the rest of the four boroughs. You know, we don't even consider ourselves part of you.
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Clay Travis
You guys, you guys are Clay and Buckland. Like I walk around there with my man Joe Borelli and I feel like the deputy mayor or something. I love you people in Staten Island.
Caller
Yeah, I mean I'm born and raised. I mean I'm a retired fireman. I've been here, you know, my whole life.
Buck Sexton
My, my.
Caller
I'm like probably a fifth generation Staten Islander. I mean, I don't it. But I just, you know, the expenses here, I mean, you know, we're still living for paycheck to paycheck here, you know, and what am I getting?
Clay Travis
Yeah.
Caller
Nothing.
Buck Sexton
Yeah.
Clay Travis
Well, and the problem is. Right. We can all agree that that's. Thank you so much for calling in, Danny, and welcome to Florida. If you do come down here, you're going to love it. I love it. I love you New Yorkers too. But the problem, Clay, is real expenses are very high in New York because of people. People making bad decisions about redistributive justice and regulation and government intervention and taxation. They're making it all worse. Well, and they just elected somebody who's going to go and triple down in that area.
Buck Sexton
My concern is whatever happens, even if it's bad, you know what they're going to do. Buck blame Trump.
Clay Travis
Yeah, of course. Yeah, we'll talk more about that. Also, the AG race in Virginia, we haven't talked about it. We will, because something very upsetting from that one we'll discuss.
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Hour 1 – About Last Night
Date: November 5, 2025
Podcast: The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
Host: iHeartPodcasts
In this post-election episode, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton tackle the key outcomes from the previous night’s elections across New York City, New Jersey, and Virginia. With candid assessments, humor, and a touch of frustration, they explore the significance of surprise victories (particularly the win by Zoran Mamdani—branded here as a "communist" mayor of NYC), underwhelming Republican turnout, shifting demographics, and party enthusiasm gaps. They also discuss the broader implications for the GOP, future elections, and what these results say about American political culture. Throughout, the hosts field calls from listeners, providing local reaction and further debate.
“The polls were all correct. … The people that were leading all won and the margins were more or less what was expected.” (04:42)
“600,000 Trump voters, Buck, did not show up and vote in both New Jersey and in Virginia.” (07:19)
"The people who love Trump, they don't show up when Trump's not on the ballot. ... That is ominous for 2026, and candidly, it's ominous for 2028." (08:18)
“The richest, whitest, most sheltered girl, you know, from the wealthiest suburb in the country is posting a picture of Zoran Mamdani on her story right now, captioned Power to the people… from her SoHo apartment that's paid for by her wealthy, conservative father.” (12:01)
“If you have the largest city in America ... being determined by people who have been in America for only a couple of years, that's a problem. That's actually not what you want. No other country would allow that.” (12:57)
“At the biggest level, at the 30,000 foot view, this is a reminder that economics is still the dominant political issue in America.” (05:56)
“Make activism something people want to show up to because they'll feel cool and they'll laugh and they'll be with their friends. And Zoran managed to do that. Now Trump has had that same effect on the right.” (10:47)
“I want to apologize because I watched the statistics. The women are the ones that put Mandami over…” (32:01)
“So it's basically, you must revel in your suffering. That is where... they finally will go.” (35:37)
"My concern is whatever happens, even if it's bad, you know what they're going to do, Buck? Blame Trump." (47:47)
On Poll Accuracy:
"The polls were all correct … The people that were leading all won and the margins were more or less what was expected."
— Clay Travis (04:42)
On Trump Voters Not Turning Out:
"600,000 Trump voters, Buck, did not show up and vote in both New Jersey and in Virginia..."
— Clay Travis (07:19)
On Leftist Campaigning:
“Make activism something people want to show up to because they'll feel cool and they'll laugh and they'll be with their friends. And Zoran managed to do that. Now Trump has had that same effect on the right.”
— Clay Travis (10:47)
On NYC’s New Coalition:
“The richest, whitest, most sheltered girl, you know, from the wealthiest suburb in the country is posting a picture of Zoran Mamdani on her story right now, captioned ‘Power to the people’ from her SoHo apartment that's paid for by her wealthy, conservative father.”
— Buck Sexton (12:01, quoting Twitter)
On Immigration’s Political Impact:
“We've had a lot of legal immigration, a lot of illegal immigration. It's time to tighten up some of these numbers a little bit and let assimilation and Americanism ... take place for everybody. It can't just be this wide open door and you get people coming here from all over the world who are saying, you know what? I want communism.”
— Clay Travis (12:57)
On GOP’s Post-Trump Challenge:
“The big question for 28, more so even than 26, I think, Clay, is how does the MAGA movement coalesce around an heir apparent? How does Trump play into that?”
— Buck Sexton (11:43)
On Escaping NYC Post-Election:
“Now that it's here, [defeat] ... it's over. ... I'm probably going to head down there this weekend and check out some properties …”
— Danny, Caller from Staten Island (46:02)
The discussion is irreverent, sometimes sarcastic, frank, and mixes political analysis with cultural commentary. Both hosts use humor to cope with disappointment and to highlight what they see as absurdities on both sides of the aisle. Callers add color and local perspectives, often echoing the hosts’ frustration or offering tongue-in-cheek apologies for their own demographics’ voting choices.
This post-election analysis hour from Clay Travis and Buck Sexton breaks down recent Democratic victories in deep blue areas, laments low Republican turnout without Trump on the ballot, and explores the demographic and cultural shifts re-shaping American urban politics. The conversation vacillates between strategic assessment, cultural critique, and self-deprecating humor, offering both dire warnings for the GOP and reminders that the cycle of American politics is long and resilient. Biting asides, direct listener engagement, and cultural commentary make it a lively if critical look at the state of American political affairs.